1 Degree of Separation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 841872928
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Roseville, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9167601680
- Rating
- 56
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $761,830
- Expenses
- $675,258
- Assets
- $158,640
- Liabilities
- $10,420
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Brad Bonar Jr (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Brad Bonar Jr (President): $164,986 total reported compensation
- Victoria Bonar (Secretary): $24,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
1 Degree of Separation's activities revolve around a touring comedy show which holds the purpose of educating and supporting our communities onthe topic of depression and suicide. At a 1 Degree show, our highly trained comedians talk about depression in an entertaining and enlightening way, asthey share stories of hope, happiness, and triumph. Each of our comedians have personally experienced the pain of depression, suicidal thoughts, orother debilitating mental imbalances. This show is open, honest, and engages conversation about depression. We aim to end the stigma of mentalillness and our mission is to bring dialogue, awareness, and acceptance to depression through laughter and vulnerability. After the show we willdistribute resources that help individuals overcome and prosper through their struggles. Our audience ranges from students, corporate workers, veterans, and more. These resources include hotlines, pamphlets, and references to therapists. We also have mental health professio
What it reported doing in 2025
Touring comedy shows with the purpose of educating and supporting the community on the topic of depression and suicide.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
MIXED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 60
- Accountability: 0
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.3%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 94%; rating input score 94
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 0 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 11.4%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.23; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 28%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 117.3% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 110.2% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 88.1% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 83.3% of revenue deployed · 94% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 7 board members independent · 0 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $634K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $165K · 7 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 20 of 20 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 8 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 59/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 40/100.